18 (A)The Lord is slow to anger and abundant in mercy, forgiving wrongdoing and violation of His Law; but (B)He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, (C)inflicting the [a]punishment of the fathers on the children [b]to the third and the fourth generations.’ 19 Please (D)forgive the guilt of this people in accordance with the greatness of Your mercy, just as You also have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:18 I.e., punishment for the wrongdoing
  2. Numbers 14:18 Lit on

34 In accordance with the (A)number of days that you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall suffer the punishment for your [a]guilt a year, that is, forty years, and you will know My opposition.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 14:34 Or wrongdoings

How blessed is a person whose guilt the Lord (A)does not take into account,
And in whose spirit there is (B)no deceit!

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I (A)acknowledged my sin to You,
And I (B)did not hide my guilt;
I said, “(C)I will confess my wrongdoings to the Lord”;
And You (D)forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

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